Don'ts:

* Don't use an apostrophe before a plural s
* Don't support the Dockers because they often unnecessarily get your hopes up
* Don't buy a whole packet of TimTams because you will eat them all
* Don't paint your toenails, it makes them go yellow, and forms a vicious cycle
* Don't forget to print your assignment before you go to uni, where you don't have internet access

Twitter is great

Barack Obama and Kevin Rudd are my two new BFFs on Twitter.
How exciting!

P.S. Essays are lame, tea is great, I love cliches and lame jokes.

As A Law Student, i can point-note what I say:

1. My law mentor is amazing. She is like a grandma, only has had every career in the world and knows good stuff.

2. I joined Twitter because I want to follow famous people. But I can't work out how to find any yet.

3. Tomorrow is Head of the River and basically the biggest day of my family's life.

4. Pretty high heels are my favourite.

5. But not as favourite as my new boots which are the most beautiful and well-priced footwear in town.

6. And just for fun, fmylife.com is actually a great time-waster. It makes you feel great about yourself

Communication

I've recently discovered just how much I fail at communication. I'm good at the quantity part, not so much the quality. And it always results in me feeling lame, and the other person probably getting a lot annoyed. Lame!

Life is almost scarily quiet at the moment. Weird.

Life is one big Facebook status

Emily is learning to really lower her expectations and thus hope to be surprised.
Emily is sick of waiting around.
Emily had forgotten how satisfying it is to complete a hypothetical legal problem.
Emily is excited to try new things.
Emily loves purple nail polish.
Emily wants to punch all people who don't understand the value of time in the face.
Emily is looking forward to a delicious lunch of Mei Goreng.
Emily enjoys the simple things.
Emily thinks stationery is good for the soul.
Emily also thinks that fast dancing is good for the soul. Not slow dancing.
Emily has large feet, and saw at Williams today they have a special large-size bin, size 11 plus!
Emily can hear her noodles bubbling and it is a fun sound.
Emily appreciates the word 'noodle'.
Emily likes that last night's message by Brian Harris brought a few ideas together in her mind.
Emily's tummy just rumbled very unattractively.
Emily is going to go eat now.

A late night rant

Somewhere in my genetic makeup is a love of free things and bargains. It is so intrinsically programmed into me that I can barely stop myself when I see a fabulous bargain or free thing. And today was the perfect day for it! Whilst shopping for biscuits (as a true office wench does - by the way I bought $60 worth. The cashier looked at me with disgust, and I can hardly blame her), I decided to find some conditioner seeing as I'd used every last drop of conditioner in the entire house. And guess what I found! Pantene conditioning treatment for a heavily discounted price of $3.50. How could I say now?

So I bought some, of course.

Then tonight, after finishing work and having some hours to kill before meeting the loved ones in Fremantle, I wandered into Myer. I love makeup and I often covet after the free gifts - although of course, they mean you have to spend about $200000000 to get the free gifts, which is only achieved if you're Lindsay. (Lindsay if you read this, and to be honest considering the surprising amount of people who do you just might, you are the craziest bargain hunter I've ever met) HOWEVER, I am amazing BECAUSE - I found a really good value free gift! I had to spend $25.90 on ChiChi makeup to receive a free twister makeup thing, with a thousand eyeshadows, lip lacquers and blush for free - and it was worth $25ish anyway! AND, to top it all off, it is exactly the eyeshadow (Smokey eyes, for those who care) I've been searching for but didn't buy because it is a million dollars in Mac!

So basically, to sum up, I love fake-free stuff, especially when I don't have to spend a ridiculous amount to get the free stuff.

Wikkid... =] Also, made a great friend at work today, her name's Emma and she's from England on a travelling/working holiday. She joined us for dinner/fun times tonight. New friends are fun. The end.

Grumpy Emily is Lame!

For some reason I've been disgustingly grumpy lately. Sorry about that. To-do lists and difficult people make for grumpy Emily. BUT!

Change is a-coming!

And the reason why?

We're going to the Murdoch Vet Barn Dance night in a week! I'm so excited!

The Best Way to Finish Two Hours of Politics Readings:

It's harder than it looks! (it actually isn't, you just need to have a good letter-ed name) (English fail by Emily)
- Copy to your own note
- Erase my answers, enter yours
- Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions.
- They have to be real...nothing made up!
- If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers.
- You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.
- Tag ten people. (Well loves, if you're reading this, consider yourself tagged)

1. What is your name : Emily (oohh, tricky start)

2. A four Letter Word : Egos (I totally don't have them...)

3. A boy's Name : Ebenezer (Scrooge!)

4. A girl's Name: Elexis (it sounds a bit like a poison doesn't it...)

5. An occupation: Exotic dancer or Endocrinologist (only slightly different fields...)

6. A color : Ecru (a pretty lame colour actually. Why don't they just call it beige? Oh right - cos then i wouldn't have an answer for this question. Although I could've said Eggshell. Also beige. Or Emerald.)

7. Something you'll wear: Earrings. Well that was boring. How about .. nah Earrings.

9. A food: I bet you think I'll say Egg. But no! What about Enchilada? Eggnog? (heh) Eclair?

10. Something found in the bathroom: Emery board, electric razor, earwigs...

11. A place : Ethiopia!

12. A reason for being late : Escaped from flesheating aliens

13. Something you'd shout : EXCLAMATION! I totally win with that one!

14. A movie title: Eastside Story

15. Something you drink: Everglade

16. A singer: Edwin McCain (he's a bit of a wuss)

17. An animal : Echidna

18. A street name : Emily Street

19. A type of car : (mitsubishi) Evolution

20. The title of a song: Escape (The Pina Colada Song!)

Well that was fun =D Bedtime!

The Most Depressing Way to Spend Your Weekend

Whilst I love being productive, studying is seriously lame.

Your back hurts, your fingers hurt from typing, your eyes hurt from reading/the computer screen, your brain hurts from thinking, your stomach hurts from random hunger...

Also it makes me really grumpy. Everyone should beware when I am grumpy!

But other than study I'm actually quite content.

The end!

Parceque je ne veux pas que vous compreniez

Je pense que la vie est tres difficile pour comprendre.

Par example, vous pouvez avoir un bon jour, en voyant vos amis, vous vous assuiez dans le soleil, vous finissez tous les choses. Mais, une chose peux vous faire comme merde.

Aujord'hi, je suis triste. Je me sens inutile, et comme rien ne facile. Tout le monde se amuse sans moi. Ou ca garcon me crie, parce qu'il pense qu'il sais tous les choses. Vraiment, il ne sais rien. Il ne comprends rien.

Quelquefois je fait semblant etre quelqu'un qui je ne suis pas. Quelquefois, si je me sense tres triste, je presente un visage trest heureuse - et je suis heureuse, prce que je ne dois pas triste. C'est déconcertant.

J ne me comprends pas quelquefois. Mais je pense v'est vraiment importante que je dit que je pense plus souvent. Ou, cest necessaire, bien sur, mais aussi, si je suis furieux, ou je veux dire que quelque'un m'est embetant avec ses cris, quand, je dirai. Regarde moi, j'échouerai toujours.

Beige is a gayface colour

What is it with lecturers and tutors and the colour beige?

Every single day, my Torts seminar person, Ana, wears some variation of beige-with-beige. Beige blouse with beige pants. Beige dress. Beige blouse with beige skirt and a beige necklace. One day she wore grey pedalpushers and a beige top.

My French teacher wears beige or dark grey.

My contracts tutor/lecturer (she's the same person) wears beige tops and dark brown pants.

Is colour on strike at universities or something? I don't understand =[

In other news, I've made the grand total of four new friends at uni this year! It took me a whole year to make that many last year! I'm so proud.

And a depressing observation: whenever you want to go out and spend money, it's unlikely you'll find something you want to buy. So your money sits there taunting you in your savings account. BUT, if you have practically no money - there's A MILLION AWESOME THINGS AT THE SHOPS.
It's a cruel world really.
C'est vrai.

Fun things

I love cash-in-hand tax-free dollars. They warm my heart and fill my wallet.

I've found a French email-pal! It's very exciting - he lives in Paris and wants to improve his English, and I want to improve my French! It's a perfect relationship really.

I'm still basically all on top of my readings and lectures so far. I'm so proud of myself =D

Still salivating over Lindsay's amazing cooking the other night. Trust me, if you'd tried it you'd be as amazed as I am.

Looking forward to dance tomorrow night - although I still wish we could do some more exciting dances and make some more upbeat changes in our approach... change doesn't come quickly. Must be patient...

First official clarity night is tomorrow, and I'm interested to see how it goes. I often talk too much or not enough. I'm the two nasty extremes of bad tute people.

WebCT is gayface.

Coloured pencils make me happy.

So does having some friendly uni faces around the place - it's nice to have people to talk to.

I think a Sister Act marathon is needed. Is it still a marathon if it's only two movies? Maybe it should be.

Things to Share with the Internet

I have really missed shopping. Like real true shopping, not just looking around. It must be my absolute favourite pastime, aside from eating, and being with friends. This weekend I bought a new pencil case, a dress, some contact, a new eyeshadow brush, a green cardigan and half price earrings. Oh and an Ikea desk drawer set. I love spending moneyyyyy...

On the bus home from uni today, the bus driver seemed to take personal offence to that fact no one was smiling. I can understand that to an extent... everyone does seem to look a bit focussed and unsmiley when you're waiting for the bus. But it'd be exceptionally weird if everyone just stood there smiling. However, it was a bit weird when the driver would say to you 'What's wrong? Why aren't you smiling? It's a beautiful day!' I guess you can't really win.

Uni is my new best friend. We spend lots of time together, I'm constantly doing stuff to make it feel worthwhile, I always visit it... Best friends.

Lindsay hosted a dinner party at her place for the school girls and it was basically the most amazing food I've ever eaten not in a restaurant. And even including restaurants it was right up there. I think her dessert was better than any restaurant dessert I've eaten. And that's saying something.

I experimented at San Churros on Sunday, and got a raspberry smoothie chocolate thing, and it may just be blasphemy but I think it was better than their hot chocolates. Seriously.

So You Think You Can Dance and Biggest Loser are the two best shows on television.

I think we should do a gospel month at church. And only sing gospel music. I'd prefer a gospel year, but people might get sick of it.

I also miss 24/7 prayer. What happened to that?

Anyway, time to wrap that one up and get back to studylicious fun. Yay!

Frustration

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And I am done.